It was a big day for Georgie Boy. He put on his big boy pants and gave a speech.

Yawn.

He’s dead to me now.

I stood up for George W. Bush in the face of horrendous attacks and never questioned his motives even when he did things I didn't necessarily agree with.He paid me back today by calling me a racist.George, you are Fredo to me.I don't want to know you, or what you do.🤔

Nowhere in George W Bush’s 2,000-word speech does he mention the name Donald Trump. It was crystal clear, however, that the 43rd US president took dead aim on the 45th president from a podium at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday.

Ex-presidents traditionally shy away from the political stage. It was long considered in poor taste for a former occupant of the Oval Office to criticise one of his successors.

Then again, these are days when seemingly set-in-stone norms and standards of behaviour have fallen by the wayside.

Mr Trump’s victory in the Republican presidential primaries was in some measure a repudiation of Mr Bush’s presidency and his vision for the Republican Party – and not just because the New Yorker belittled and subsequently bested Mr Bush’s brother, Jeb Bush.

Now Mr Bush is offering his rebuke. When asked after his speech if his message would reach the White House, he smiled and replied, “I think it will”.

Here are just a few of the choicest lines that might be flying toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – and what they could mean.

Since World War II, America has encouraged and benefited from the global advance of free markets, from the strength of democratic alliances, and from the advance of free societies.

Mr Bush offers the classic defence of an internationalist foreign policy – that engagement and advancement of free markets and free societies is in the US’s best long-term interests.

Compare that to Mr Trump’s contention that the US has been taken advantage of by other nations – both through trade and in defence arrangements. He has expressed general distrust of multilateral engagement and views the global arena as a largely a zero-sum contest between competing national interests, where the US must put “America first”.

Mr Trump rose to national prominence by becoming a high-profile advocate of a particularly insidious conspiracy theory – that Barack Obama was not born in the US and, consequently, was ineligible to be president.
—We’ve seen nationalism distorted into nativism – forgotten the dynamism that immigration has always brought to America.

Mr Trump not only has pushed for a crackdown on undocumented immigration, he’s proposed drastic cuts in refugee resettlement programmes and backed a bill in Congress that would cut in half the number of permanent residency “green cards” issued each year.
—According to our intelligence services, the Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other.

Mr Trump, and his supporters, have consistently expressed scepticism about the conclusion by US government officials that Russian agents and hackers attempted to influence the US presidential election through social media, fake new reports and the release of purloined material from Democratic Party sources.
—Our identity as a nation – unlike many other nations – is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood… Bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

“Blood and soil” was one of the phrases white supremacists chanted as they demonstrated in Charlottesville, Virginia, the night before violent clashes with counter-protesters in August. (Another was “Jews will not replace us”).
—Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children.

During the primary campaign, Mr Trump called Jeb Bush a hypocrite, weak, low-energy, a lightweight, a failure, a “sad sack” and a “pathetic figure” with “zero communications skills”.

He tweeted that Jeb had to ask his “mommy to take a slap at me” but that “mom can’t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or Putin”.

Breaking news reports say that both Bush I and wife Barbara are in the hospital now, the old man in ICU.

Bush I, George H. W. Bush, was the brains of the Bush Crime Family, Dumb Bush II and Jeb just coasted on daddy’s coattails. Both of them, unlike “Poppy” Bush, are dumber than a box of rocks.

Poppy is not only smart, but clever. He was surely involved in the Kennedy assassination. He was also certainly behind the Reagan assassination attempt. With his dying lips he should confess his role in crimes against humanity and seek God’s forgiveness.

Because of his cleverness, the Bush Crime Family and the Clinton Crime machine are close allies.

But let’s say you don’t believe any of what I just wrote. You still can’t deny that the Bush family has tried to establish a political dynasty in America.

It looks like that nightmare scenario is over. Jeb has been exposed as an incompetent fool by Donald Trump.

If Poppy dies on Inauguration eve or thereabouts, I’m calling it as a sign from God that He’s blessing Trump’s personal safety. Once Poppy is gone, Poppy’s aging loyalists in the CIA and elsewhere in the Deep State have a strongly reduced incentive to assassinate Trump. I’m sure the Bush’s are still feeling the sting of Trump’s insults directed at “Low-energy Jeb.” They’ve also got to be worried about Trump’s plan to dismantle the Deep State that nourished their rise to power and wealth. Nonetheless, when the old man is gone, the baby Bushes just won’t have the same ability to plot against the rest of us.

Democratic Underground offers a history of the Bush clan going back a hundred years. This crime family has been starting wars and profiting from them for that long, according to the evidence.

Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to an intensive care unit on Wednesday, and his wife, Barbara, was hospitalized as a precaution, according to his spokesman.

The former president was admitted to the ICU at a Houston hospital to “address an acute respirator problem stemming from pneumonia,” family spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement. McGrath said the former first lady was hospitalized as a precaution after experiencing fatigue and coughing.

George Bush was taken to the hospital over the weekend for shortness of breath. McGrath said earlier Wednesday that the 92-year-old Bush was responding well to treatments.

The 41st president was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital on Saturday, McGrath said in an email to The Associated Press.

“Doctors and everyone are very pleased, and we hope to have him out soon,” McGrath said.

Bush’s chief of staff, Jean Becker, told the Houston Chronicle and KHOU-TV that Bush was expected to go home in a couple of days.

Bush, who served as U.S. president from 1989 to 1993, has a form of Parkinson’s disease and uses a motorized scooter or a wheelchair for mobility. He was hospitalized in Maine in 2015 after falling at his summer home and breaking a bone in his neck, and was hospitalized in Houston the previous December for about a week for shortness of breath. He spent Christmas 2012 in intensive care for a bronchitis-related cough and other issues.

Despite the loss of mobility, Bush celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump in Kennebunkport, Maine. Last summer, Bush led a group of 40 wounded warriors on a fishing trip at the helm of his speedboat, three days after his 92nd birthday celebration.

If Bush dies now, it will cast a pall over the Inauguration festivities. If he’s on his deathbed, hopefully Hell can wait until Monday.

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At Trump rallies, people of all ages and creeds, even some outside the continent, have continued to make their voices heard.

Far from idle chatter, Trump’s words come as escalating protests from left-wing activists, heated responses from his supporters, and increasing tensions within the GOP over his candidacy are raising fears that the convention could devolve into chaos. Cleveland is reportedly working to procure 2,000 sets of riot gear equipment for its officers.

Bush Republicanism, with its emphasis on endless wars abroad and government invasion of privacy at home has just lost its public face–that of a man who is too stupid to figure out how to put a hoodie on and so pathetic that he had to ask his audience to clap.

Most were silly. Some were serious. All made the Republican ex-governor look out of touch as he tries to overcome the commanding presence of Trump in the race for his party’s nominee.

It probably doesn’t help that “America” written by itself represents in Internet corners a type of sarcastic toughness (often spelled ’Murica) that mocks anyone who actually would post a gun to their social media profile to try to impress others. smdh.